CALL FOR SUPPORT

Dear Internet Community:

The Internet giveth and the FCC taketh away.

The dominant telcos seemed to have convinced the FCC to discourage innovative use of the Internet for telephony. In an April 10th letter to Congress, the FCC may offer some troubling recommendations.
Here we have the first Internet application for people without computers getting attention because at one time telephone service operated as a "natural monopoly". We want to think times have changed, but regulations threaten to throttle the innovation engine at the heart of the Internet. IP Telephony does not represent a special case, it seems clear many interest groups want to protect the status quo by regulating and taxing the Internet into oblivion.
Their position seems compelling on the surface, saying the new players should pay their fair share of the fees supporting universal service. However, the idea these emerging services should subsidize universal service via existing mechanisms amounts to suggesting the emerging personal computer industry should have helped make computing more affordable by subsidizing the distribution of IBM mainframes.

Silence gets received as agreement.

Let the FCC and your representatives in Congress know how you feel about protecting innovative uses of the Internet (see directories at www.fcc.gov & www.congress.gov ).

See http://pulver.com for the current press release and further announcements. Join our blue ribbon campain by displaying the "Save Innovation on the Net" icon on your home page.

Sincerely,

Jeff Pulver Tel. +1.516.753.2640
President/CEO Fax. +1.516.293.3996
pulver.com http://pulver.com